It’s Hot! Got a Bucket and a Fan? Make the Poor Man’s Air Conditioner!
It's becoming that time of the year when it's unbearably hot and all you want is a nice cool house to come home to or a nice cool room to sleep in. Running your air conditioner can get expensive or heaven forbid you don't have one at all. Well never fear, we have a do it at home solution for you!
Materials you're gonna need:
- 5 Gallon Bucket
- Styrofoam liner
- PVC pipe
- Small fan
- Ice or frozen jug of water
Essentially it's really easy.
- Drill 3 holes in bucket a little bigger than your PVC pipe that the air will blow out of.
- Put Styrofoam liner in bucket and use previously drilled holes as a pattern to drill same sized holes into Styrofoam
- Place PVC pipe into hole in bucket
- Cut hole in lid of the bucket just big enough for your fan to set in, facing down into bucket
- Put jug of frozen water or ice in the bottom of the bucket
- Turn on fan
- If you did it correctly, you'll have you very own homemade air conditioner!
Follow the video for best directions.